Simeon Bulatov

Simeon Bulatov was a Russian schemaarchimandrite of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1856 into a peasant family at Spasskoe, Totma district, Vologda province. He reposed at Constantinople on 5 January 1924. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Dmitry Dmitrievich in the world, the son of Alexandra, he came to Athos in 1887, aged twenty-⁠one, and was tonsured into the mantle on 22 March 1889 with the name Seraphim; his first obedience was in the monastery shop. He was distinguished by incredible optimism and an active character: for him nothing was impossible, and he always said, with God's help all things are possible. At the end of 1923 he fell gravely ill. He could not fulfil his dream of dying on Athos and laying his bones in Athonite soil, but his soul, purified by many labours for the good of the monastery and of people, passed in peace into the Kingdom of heaven.